Stories for July 2022

Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
The First Sea Lord warns: “We are focusing solely on the Russian bear risks missing the tiger in the room”

In a wide-ranging 25-minute keynote address to the Council on Geostrategy at The Naval and Military Club in London, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key, outlined the lessons of events in eastern Europe and their impact on the Navy and the nation it serves, emphasizing the ever-growing importance of maritime power as means to promote peace, security, and prosperity.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:38 UTC
Russia launches attack on Ukrainian port of Odessa despite truce

Just one day after signing a truce with Ukraine to allow for the export of grains through three Black Sea ports, Russia launched an attack on Odessa to destroy a ship and a shed containing U.S. missiles, the Kremlin argued.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Pope lands in Canada to seek forgiveness from native communities

The Argentina-born Pope Francis Sunday arrived in Canada despite his walking impairment on a mission to seek the forgiveness of native communities for abuses perpetrated at education institutes run by the Catholic Church, which have been unearthed recently.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:05 UTC
Brazil: Bolsonaro officially launched reelection bid

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday officially launched his candidacy for reelection at the Maracanaziho stadium in Rio de Janeiro. In his speech, the head of state once again criticized the country’s Judiciary and announced a new batch of measures to help the neediest.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:47 UTC
July 1942: Nazi Germany begins the systematic extermination of Polish Jews

In July 1942, Nazi Germany ordered the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was terrible. In the Ghetto to the northwest of the city some 450,000 men, women, and children lived crammed together behind the high walls. Around 100,000 people had died of hunger or disease, or been killed in summary executions. But the worse was to come on 22 July 1942.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:25 UTC
Brazilian health authorities report increase in number of cases of monkeypox

Brazilian health authorities said this weekend that the State of São Paulo had recorded over 500 cases of monkeypox, most of them in the City of São Paulo (442 of the total 538). The first infection was registered in the state on June 9.
Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:18 UTC
Monkeypox a global emergency, WHO declares

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the onset of monkeypox constituted a global emergency after cases of the malady were detected in over 70 countries.
Sunday, July 24th 2022 - 14:06 UTC
The great multicultural experiment: half the contenders vying to be Britain’s next prime minister were not white

By Gwynne Dyer – Here’s an interesting fact: only 14 percent of people in England and Wales are Black, Asian, mixed or other (i.e. non-white). Yet, half the candidates that were ying to take the place of disgraced British prime minister Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party — and therefore the new prime minister — are non-white. Four out of eight
Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 22:49 UTC
Falklands’ black gold rush might at last be a reality

By Dominic O’Connell, The Times- Head north from the Falkland Islands, across the South Atlantic waves where albatross wheels and whales sound, and you pass over what could be a big new oil province — a significant source of hydrocarbons controlled not by sheiks or oligarchs, but by the United Kingdom.
Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 21:54 UTC
As of Saturday, Falklands have the first woman Governor, Ms Alison Blake CMG

It's official, the Falkland Islands have a new Governor, and the first woman to occupy that position, Ms. Alison Blake CMG. The governor designate for the Falkland Islands, and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Ms. Blake took the oath of office on Saturday morning at the Court and Assembly Chamber.